Decrease and Wedge

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

noun

• Any shape that is triangular in cross section.
  • synonyms: wedge shape, cuneus
• A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States.
  • synonyms: bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, zep
• A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c. to indicate pronunciation)
  • synonyms: hacek
• A heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe.
  • synonyms: wedge heel
• Golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole. (
• Something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them.
• A block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object.
  • synonyms: chock

verb

• Put, fix, force, or implant.
  • usage: "lodge a bullet in the table"; "stick your thumb in the crack"
  • synonyms: lodge, stick, deposit
• Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space.
  • usage: "I squeezed myself into the corner"
  • synonyms: squeeze, force

• (v.t.) To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
• (v.t.) To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
• (v.t.) To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
• (n.) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; -- so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.
• (n.) A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.
• (n.) Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
• (v.t.) To fasten with a wedge or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.
• (v.t.) To press closely; to fix or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
• (v.t.) To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges or as with a wedge; to rive.
• (n.) A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
• (n.) A piece of metal or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.

Wedge is a chart pattern composed of two converging lines connecting peaks and troughs. In the case of falling wedges, the pattern indicates temporary interruptions of upward price rallies. In the case of rising wedges, indicates interruptions of a falling price trend.